Why Louisiana is Going to Heaven (and what should be your state drink)

Okay, maybe not heaven, but how about purgatory? There's been a bill introduced to the state senate for a state cocktail! Why not... don't most states have a state bird, rock, tree, flower, etc. ?

People will miss that it once meant something to be Southern or Midwestern. It doesn't mean much now, except for the climate. The question, “Where are you from?” doesn't lead to anything odd or interesting. They live somewhere near a Gap store, and what else do you need to know? - Garrison Keillor

Louisiana has already gone to Hell. Well, at least New Orleans has. It is god-awful hot and humid. Every form of debauchery is available about 24-7. New Orleans makes Sodom and Gommorrah look like a Baptist Sunday picnic. And why do you think you meet so many interesting people and have such a good time when you go there?

Like Mark Twain said, "I will take Heaven for the climate and Hell for the society."

The Sazerac was in New Orleans long before the Hurricane was invented.

Montana's state cocktail would probably be a beer and a bump.

"I am very good at reading women, but I get into trouble for using the Braille method."

I suppose Michigan's state drink would probably be Stroh's (just cuz more Michiganders drink it than Bells)

People will miss that it once meant something to be Southern or Midwestern. It doesn't mean much now, except for the climate. The question, “Where are you from?” doesn't lead to anything odd or interesting. They live somewhere near a Gap store, and what else do you need to know? - Garrison Keillor

Louisiana has already gone to Hell. Well, at least New Orleans has. It is god-awful hot and humid. Every form of debauchery is available about 24-7. New Orleans makes Sodom and Gommorrah look like a Baptist Sunday picnic. And why do you think you meet so many interesting people and have such a good time when you go there?

*sigh* i miss New Orleans.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.-Martin Luther King Jr.

The Sazerac? How can it not be the Hurricane, Pat O'Brien's and NOLA's most famous drink?

Because after a few, you don’t even remember them… or anything else from that night.

They truly were wonderful things at the APA conference in 01’. That was such a great college outing.

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. Time makes more converts than reason." - Thomas Paine Common Sense.

The official state drink in Kentucky is ... are you ready for it? .... ready now? ..... here it comes! ..... MILK!
What, you were thinking maybe Bourbon?
Nope, it's officially milk.

Could be worse......I see Indiana's imaginative state beverage choice is.......WATER. Hoosiers. [/snort of derision]

People will miss that it once meant something to be Southern or Midwestern. It doesn't mean much now, except for the climate. The question, “Where are you from?” doesn't lead to anything odd or interesting. They live somewhere near a Gap store, and what else do you need to know? - Garrison Keillor

People will miss that it once meant something to be Southern or Midwestern. It doesn't mean much now, except for the climate. The question, “Where are you from?” doesn't lead to anything odd or interesting. They live somewhere near a Gap store, and what else do you need to know? - Garrison Keillor

NY's official state beverage is milk too. there must be some kind of milk conspirancy.

Should be the egg cream...

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There are many states with milk as the state beverage.... stupid dairy lobby...

I would think Colorado's would be Coors, no I am not bowing to the macrobrew industry and shunning Colorado's tasty micros (best in the US!), but Coors provides history and just speaks Colorado to many beer drinkers.

You get all squeezed up inside/Like the days were carved in stone/You get all wired up inside/And it's bad to be alone

You can go out, you can take a ride/And when you get out on your own/You get all smoothed out inside/And it's good to be alone
-Peart